David Spiegelhalter

About the author

Sir David Spiegelhalter, born in Barnstaple in 1953, is one of Britain's most prominent statisticians, known for his work on making risk and uncertainty intelligible to the public. A Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, he held the Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge from 2007 to 2018, and now chairs the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. An ISI highly cited researcher, he has also served as a non-executive director of the UK Statistics Authority since 2020.